‘Absurd!’: US Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class for First Time
“It’s time to tax the billionaires,” economist Gabriel Zucman argues in a new analysis.
It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires Gabriel Zucman, New York Times
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“Level 25 of 255 and Beyond Inc … There is no moral valence to someone just not liking us.” “There’s a goodness and richness in this sort of predestined suffering.” — the moral sensibilities of Lillian Fishman, advice columnist at The Point
It was only a matter of time before a state government version of robodebt surfaced from the murky swamp of automated debt collection.
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IT’S HOW THE MACHINE WORKS: Thoughts on Selective Law Enforcement. “You have a right to free speech, but that doesn’t give you a First Amendment right to camp out on my lawn with protest signs. That’s trespassing. But government officials sometimes allow trespassing when they sympathize with the trespasser’s viewpoint. Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC have refused to remove progressive anti-Israel protesters camping out at private universities — Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and George Washington University.”
This should give rise to civil rights lawsuits. Plus:
As a University of Pennsylvania alumnus notes, these illegal protests are only being allowed by progressive officials because of the viewpoint they are expressing. If the protesters were “white nationalists waving nazi flags and telling black people they should go back to Africa I’m sure [police] would be out there pretty quickly” to remove them. . . . This favoritism by progressive cities violates the First Amendment. According to the Supreme Court, the government cannot favor certain kinds of protests over others.
But that’s how the left rolls: “For my friends, everything. For my enemies: The law.”
Plus: “From what I can gather, the problem in cities is usually not that the police department itself is unwilling to assist, but that they are under orders from the mayor, afraid of upsetting far left constituents, to stand down.
This is going a bit beyond my expertise, but from what I understand the Justice Department could and should, but won’t under the Biden administration, investigate whether these police departments are violating the terms of their federal funding, and also denying equal protection of the law, by refusing to enforce the law for ideological and political reasons.
An added factor is that this lack of enforcement is to the specific detriment of Jewish students who have disproportionately faced threats, intimidation, and violence from people at the encampments.”
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- AI in Banking and Finance, April 30, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions.
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- TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age – Professor Nir Eisikovits
- Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – Dr. Matt Kasson
- AI in Banking and Finance, April 15, 2024 – Sabrina I. Pacifici
- What Happens When Your Art is Used to Train AI – Dorothy Gambrell
- Trapped in Darkness: Women in Europe remain defenseless against gender-based violence – Janine Louloudi, Nikos Morfonios, and Kostas Zafeiropoulos.
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